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Trash WON'T Empty
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Michigan
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Hello everyone...
My system has been work flawlessly since the day I got it (around 3 months ago) and all the sudden I cannot empty the Trash. Here's what happens... I can put any type of file in the Trash but when I go to empty it the only thing that happens is Finder re-launches and my Trash still has stuff in it. I can get it to empty uing Onyx and its secure empty script but nothing else seems to work.
Now I'm sure this has something to do with it... but when I got home from work today I did my weekly check for Apple software updates and noticed there was the Security Update 2006-007 for Intel, so I told the system to update it self and it got all the way to 75% installed and then quit saying there were installation errors and to try the install again. So I tried a couple more times but it still didn't work, and after the 3rd time I trashed the .pkg file and then went to empty the trash and BAM I get the trash problem I mentioned above.
So does anybody have any ideas?
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System: MacBook Pro 15" | 2.6GHz C2D | 4GB's of Sheep
OS: OS X 10.5.5
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
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Hmm, the first thing I'd suggest is probably the most obvious: try repairing permissions on your disk and then re-installing the update. If that doesn't help, I'd suggest a re-installation of the the 10.4.8 combo updater, assuming your system came with 10.4.7 or older. And if nothing else works, you may be stuck with an archive-and-reinstall.
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Michigan
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Thanks for the info TheoCryst... the funny thing is that I tried repairing the permissions right after posting and it wouldn't fix the problem, but when I got home from work thoday I figured I would try it again and this time it worked.
I did figure out though that the Security-Update 2006-007 was the culprate. I tried installing the update again and it errored out again right around the 75% mark and after that my Trash quit emptying, so I don't know what the issue it but my system doesn't like the new update.
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System: MacBook Pro 15" | 2.6GHz C2D | 4GB's of Sheep
OS: OS X 10.5.5
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Senior User
Join Date: Dec 2002
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iMac - Late 2015 iMac, 32GB RAM
MacBook - 2010 MacBook, 1TB SSD, 16GB RAM
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Omaha
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I have had problems with the install of the Security Update 2006-007. I repaired permissions first, then installed. Took ten minutes to reboot. AFter that, very, very slow running...tried to use disk utility, now won't boot up. Tried disk utility again, and said I have a volume error, length error. Crap....archive and install wont work, am I hosed?
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12" PB, Rev B
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Omaha
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I have had problems with the install of the Security Update 2006-007. I repaired permissions first, then installed. Took ten minutes to reboot. AFter that, very, very slow running...tried to use disk utility, now won't boot up. Tried disk utility again, and said I have a volume error, length error. Crap....archive and install wont work, am I hosed? The inablility to boot came after trying to reinstall the security update...it works..no one can get in..lol...
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12" PB, Rev B
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: California
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This is a long shot, but try Secure Emtpy Trash from the Finder menu.
This has worked for me when I get some error message telling me some item was in use and it would not empty the trash.
Good luck.
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Mac Mini
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Grizzled Veteran
Join Date: Jun 2006
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I am having the same problem on my MB now. Should I repair permissions? I did secure empty and regular empty.
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